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Books like Gender Games: 9 series to read next

Gender Games is dystopia. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Gender Games is 7 books, 2016–2017.

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The Handmaid's Tale
Divergent
The Testing Trilogy
Uglies Universe
The Pledge
Red Queen
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Taken / Gray Weathersby
Eden (Joey Graceffa)

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Set in north america.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity, set in north america and big city.

Start with The Transfer →

The Testing TrilogySeries

seriesJoelle Charbonneau4 books2013

About survival and political intrigue.

“Joelle Charbonneau's Testing trilogy is set generations after a war has wrecked the world's governments and resources, when a rebuilt society selects its most promising graduates for the Testing, a competition meant to find future leaders.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Testing →

Uglies UniverseSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld & Devin Grayson9 books2005

Dystopia and science fiction, set in near future.

“Tally Youngblood, the original tetralogy's protagonist, initially awaits her own operation before learning it also surgically dulls independent thought, driving her toward the hidden resistance community called the Smoke.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The PledgeSeries

seriesKimberly Derting3 books2011

About class conflict.

Start with The Pledge →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Fantasy, about class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

Nineteen Eighty-FourSeries

seriesGeorge Orwell, Mike Dean & Sandra Newman4 books1949

Dystopia.

Start with Nineteen Eighty-Four →

Taken / Gray WeathersbySeries

seriesErin Bowman5 books2013

Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in secondary world.

Start with Taken →

Eden (Joey Graceffa)Series

seriesJoey Graceffa & Laura L. Sullivan3 books2016

Set in far future.

Start with Children of Eden →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Gender Games?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to Gender Games on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Gender Games?: The Gender Game. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Gender Games.
How big is Gender Games?: Gender Games is 7 books, 2016–2017.

Books like Gender Games: 9 series to read next

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